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Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...
ByRachel DrummondJuly 29, 2026Intergenerational living is often presented as either a return to an older family model or a response to housing costs. In practice, families...
ByJonathan ReeveJuly 23, 2026There has never been only one way to be a British man, even if popular culture has often pretended otherwise. The familiar images...
ByJonathan ReeveJuly 6, 2026A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...
August 22, 2026Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...
August 9, 2026Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...
July 29, 2026Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...
July 28, 2026Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...
July 27, 2026Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...
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